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New Delhi: Concerned over an alarming rise in suicide cases in India, leading psychiatrists and mental health experts on Thursday made a plea to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch a nationwide awareness campaign to remove the social stigma associated with mental illnesses.
India's demographic profile shows that it has the...

Another Salman Khan film is in the theatres and will likely become a bumper hit. Kick, that stars actress Jacqueline Fernandez as a young psychiatrist, is a study in the bizarre, mainly because, among other things, the makers probably have never been in touch with a real psychiatrist.
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New Delhi: Today's Google doodle marks the 129th birth anniversary of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist who devised the Rorschach inkblot test that bears his name. This test is used clinically for diagnosing psychopathology. Here are 10 things that you didn't know about Hermann Rorschach and his creation.
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New Delhi: Many of us who would have never been to a psychiatrist's but have tried our own versions of an inkblot test. November 8, 2013 is the 129th birth anniversary of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist who devised the test that bears his name. Because of his love for...

A military jury on Wednesday sentenced a US Army psychiatrist to death for the 2009 mass murder of 13 people, mostly unarmed soldiers, at Fort Hood, Texas, which the convicted gunman said he committed in retaliation for US wars in the Muslim world.
Major Nidal Hasan, who shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God...

Prosecutors in the trial of US Army Major Nidal Hasan on Wednesday asked the jury to sentence him to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, saying the convicted gunman is a criminal and "never will be a martyr."
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The military jury of 13 officers who convicted Hasan...

A military jury convicted US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan of all 13 charges of premeditated murder and all 32 charges of attempted premeditated murder on Friday for the November 2009 shooting spree against unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas.
The convictions mean Hasan could face the death penalty by lethal...

Bradley Manning, the US soldier sentenced this week for leaking 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the country's history, could soon be entangled in another legal showdown.
Unlike the court-martial Manning faced for leaking the data, the next challenge could play out in federal...

The US Army psychiatrist who has admitted shooting dead 13 fellow soldiers in 2009 chose one station at a Fort Hood medical facility as his "personal kill zone" because he knew it would be packed with soldiers, a prosecutor said on Thursday in closing arguments of a court-martial.
Major Nidal Hasan,...

Ahmedabad: Concerned over the rise in the number of suicides, Gandhinagar police have launched a helpline to offer counselling to people and dissuade them from taking the extreme step, a senior police official said in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The helpline named 'Jindagi' was launched by the state capital police on...

Mumbai: Even as the nation prays for the 23yearold gangrape survivor in Delhi, psychiatrists tell CNNIBN that it could take quite some time to deal with the emotional trauma. The extensive media coverage could also trigger trauma in other rape survivors.
When asked what is the road of recovery like...

Noida: Days after the Behl sisters were rescued, 43yearold Sonali remains critical. Her elder sister Anuradha died on Wednesday. One overpowering question remains how could two women who seemed to be leading a normal life just months ago become like this?
Several questions revolve around their brother Vipin who had...

Patna: More than three months after the Kosi flood, Sudha is still living the nightmare. The scenes of the dead bodies floating in the flood water keeps playing in her mind. She's now been undergoing psychiatric treatment.
Her husband, Pranay Saha says, "The doctors said that the trauma caused by...

New Delhi: This Mental Health Awareness Week, CNNIBN does a status check on the facilities available revealing a shocking state of affairs in the country. There are some 4,000 trained psychiatrists available to deal with an estimated four crore Indians suffering.
With one farmer suicide reported every eight minutes in...

This is Mental Health Awareness Week; CNNIBN does a status check on the facilities available revealing a shocking state of affairs in the country. There are only 4, 000 psychiatrists for an estimated two crore Indians suffering.
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New Delhi: Troubled singer Britney Spears once again witnessed a public meltdown. Meanwhile her manager confirms that Spears is seeking help from a psychiatrist.
Britney spears was on Monday night pictured sitting barefoot outside her LA home sobbing after a runin with her manager and closest confidant, Sam Lutfi over...

New Delhi: School students in the capital have come together to publish a newsletter dealing with important adolescent issues.
Some of them got together to make Youthoria, an eightpage bimonthly newsletter started in association with a panel of psychiatrists which tries to answer everything you ever wanted to know about...

New Delhi: Worried by increasing number of fratricidal killings and suicides, Army plans to recruit 400 psychiatrists to cope with stress within its ranks.
The Army has been affected by a string of fratricidal killings and suicides in recent months and a majority of such incidents were blamed on stress associated...